Conservative Provocateur (James O'Keefe) Creates Fake LGBT Group To ‘Expose’ Voter Fraud

[kpete]

James O’Keefe, perhaps best known as the undercover pimp who targeted the community organizing group ACORN, has once again been trying to target Democratic candidates with undercover schemes, this time in Colorado. Last week, he and two collaborators tried to bait field staffers working on the reelection campaign for Sen. Mark Udall (D-CO) into approving voter fraud using Colorado’s new vote-by-mail system.

This year will be the first time Colorado voters have the opportunity to vote in a general election by mail. All registered voters will receive a ballot in the mail that they simply fill out and return. On several occasions, O’Keefe and his collaborators approached Udall campaign staffers to suggest that they fill out these ballots for other people.

In one case, a man visited a Democratic field office in Boulder hoping to volunteer for the campaign. Identifying himself with an LGBT activist student group called Rocky Mountain Vote Pride, the individual suggested that he could fill out mail-in ballots for other college students who had moved away but still received mail on campus. Though he was turned away, he came back another time, bringing along a friend he introduced as a “civics professor” from the University of Colorado-Boulder who also served as the faculty adviser for Rocky Mountain Vote Pride. Staffers later confirmed that the “professor” was, in fact, O’Keefe himself, matching his appearance to a photo O’Keefe tweeted of himself in disguise as a “45 yo” with a mustache.

Rocky Mountain Vote Pride does not seem to be a real group. It has a basic website and Facebook page, neither of which contains any contact information. The website suggests it’s a student group dedicated to advancing “voter participation and equality in America,” listing some basic polling on marriage equality, without citation.

MORE:
http://thinkprogress.org/lgbt/2014/10/21/3582258/james-okeefe-lgbt-voter-fraud/

[sharp_stick]

1. What an asshole

I really hope he's recognized doing one of his idiotic stunts and someone kicks the shit out of him just on principle.

[still_one]

2. Actually, o'keefe should be charged with attempted voter fraud.

[Half-Century Man]

3. Turn him in for attempted conspiracy of voter fraud.

[xfundy]

4. Turds gotta turd.

[AverageJoe90]

11. You got that right. n/t

[rickford66]

5. People go to jail for a lot less.

Conspiracy to commit voter fraud isn't investigative journalism. It's a serious crime.

[Zambero]

6. When do dirty tricks become crimes?

It seems that O'Keefe may have stepped over a line this time. Conspiring to entice others to commit a felony, without legal authorization and under false pretenses, with a purely political motive -- it doesn't take a genius. He took a huge risk and got caught in the act. Hopefully this outing gets lots of coverage in Colorado.

[11 Bravo]

7. I would love to punch that slimy little fuckwad squarely in the snot locker.

[ChisolmTrailDem]

8. Why isn't this sorry fucker in jail? nt

[YoungDemCA]

10. The same reason these sorry fuckers aren't in jail

[hifiguy]

13. Life in front of a firing squad would be far too good for them.

[Initech]

9. They just love chasing those invisible boogeymen don't they?

[hifiguy]

12. Why isn't this guy in jail?

Seriously. This shit is textbook fraud.

[Orsino]

14. Why hasn't he been audited?

Would love to know who's bankrolling him.